Upup Precise 3.7.2 has been uploaded. This Precise Puppy based, enhanced version, uses 3.7.2 kernel. It does not have pae kernel, basic i686 for compatibility with older hardware.

Usual large device support. This is first 3.7 kernel trial, so surprises are expected. It behaves with my short tests. This is the second compile of the kernel using 3.7.2 version, so it has gone through some usage.

Firmware handling, graphics and so on needs user feedback.

For LateAdopter, this kernel has msr and cpuiid support, as modules. Happy low level tuning.

SMB2 support for cifs has been included. It might have some benefit with Windows 7 shares. I dont know if the mount syntax needs any new parameters.

Otherwise this build is about same as Upup Precise 5.4.X.7, so read announcement post of that version.

3.7.2 auto updates your frugal install without a problem (and all automatically), in fact it retains all of your changes (that is great) but... after a shutdown and a reboot from the HDD, it presents you with the features (type enter to update or any key to copy to ram etc) it normally would have done this when originally booting from the 3.7.2 disk now... it won't allow you to use your new updated savefile.

Other than that (so far) 3.7.2 'does work' on an old IBM T22 Thinkpad with 256MB ram... and seems to do it very well!

And from my DISTRO_SPECS:
no|ghostscript|ghostscript,libgs9,ghostscript-cups,libgs-dev|exe,dev,doc,nls| #TODO needs more pkgs
yes|ghostscript||exe,dev,doc,nls

Both uses puppy pet ( the same one), not ubuntu .debs.

In my tests I added one package more than Barry: ghostcript package, but I think it still had problems. So I retained to what Barry used, ie his ghostscript pet. I didnt continue the bug hunting.

If there is real need, the experimenting can continue....

The reason. Ghostscript related stuff has been splitted to several smaller packages, there is still missing stuff, and I dont know what else is absolutely needed, probably libgs9-common and probably other packages. The total size would grow much bigger than Barry`s pet provides.

The same goes with cups....Last edited by pemasu on Sun 13 Jan 2013, 04:42; edited 3 times in total

Hi,
Firefox18.pet from pemasu's upup repo assumes an earlier version of firefox to already have been installed (see inside its pinstall.sh file).
Upup Precise comes standard with Seamonkey in it.
So Seamonkey keeps being installed even if Firefox's pet is installed.
If wanting to remove Seamonkey, one has to do it manually.

Charlie6. I wonder what I have uploaded. The firefox-18 which was meant to be there didnt have pinstall.sh script at all. Only puninstall.sh.

That firefox pet has been created using Tman`s technique and it was provided by 666philb. I did try to upload it for compatilibity. In the future, it might be possible that quickpet uses upup repo. So...I tried to upload quickpet offerings to the upup repo, instead of need to use hosting services.

Firefox-18.pet had flaw. It didnt create firefox symlink to the /usr/bin. Fixed now. It asks if Firefox will be the defaultbrowser and updates /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser if wanted.

It does not presume that Firefox has been previously installed.

Maybe I did upload wrong Firefox pet. I just dont understand how.
Anyway....Firefox-18.pet has been updated in upup repo.

I am not much gonna use time with browser initialization setups and scripts. Browsers comes and goes. The initialization scripts...if complicated tend to fail at some time, when the script update changes to correspond the newer version fails.
There is browsers for everybodys liking. And I presume almost everybody know how to update the browser to defaultbrowser. It is about first task to do. At least about first task to learn.

But I fixed now the setup script for Firefox.

There is canonical Firefox-18 in ubuntu repos. Just use PPM. It wont autoupdate, I believe.

About removing Seamonkey. Not much use to do that. It is still there as whiteouted files. Just remove DOT.desktop file and run fixmenus and jwm -reload. And it is as much away by that manouver.

I think that removing base sfs contained stuff is useful only if you remaster the build and really remove apps.

Thanks for the non-pae build....... now there is a version of Precise I'll actually install.

Yeah. I did combine my desire to compile kernel and also offer latest kernel for non pae kernel puppy users. There has been a lot development in graphics kernel modules and also wireless drivers have gone through many bug fixes.

There has been a lot problems with both of them with 3.2.X kernel.
I dont know if this bleeding edge kernel is really any better, but there is chance that some puppy users will benefit from it.

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